Hotels are "intrinsically pointless...just a shelter for people," says Philppe Starck but in his newest interior project, Paris hotel Le Royal Monceau, he has attempted to create a "home" rich with history, art, Parisian elegance.
Le Royal Monceau is just a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe and Parc Monceau. Opening August 1, 1928, this sophisticated hotel became a rendezvous place for artists, intellectuals, and celebrities from Ernest Hemingway, General Eisenhower and Ho Chi Minh to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Robert de Niro. After a bit of a lull, in 2008, the hotel closed down for renovations and got a much-needed breath of life. Re-opening in October 2010, Starck's reimagined interiors attempt to bring Parisian 1920s into the modern age with an exuberant and luxurious design, inviting one not to pass through, but to stay a while.
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Starck is close to our heart at mydeco and he sits on the design board for our UK company: http://bit.ly/hsCGht. We're really proud to see his work on HuffPost!
http://trouvaillesdujour.blogspot.com/2010/10/royal-monceau-revisited.html
In an interview with Die Zeit Weekly newspaper, Starck went on to say –
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression….”
Apparently he couldn’t find “something else” and his designer eco-friendly product line didn’t work out. But then conspicuous consumption has always been more lucrative.